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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Another Go To Heller Letter...

I sign a few online
petitions and have sent some letters to my elected representatives to
make clear that we need to fix things – and I want them to do the
right thing. U.S. Senator Dean Heller has replied to me on a number
of occasions – but not how I would hope. In fact, I now call his
correspondence “Go to Heller” letters. They always ramble for a
while, and then somewhere towards the bottom of the letter I realize
I've been told to go to hell – in the most obscure way possible.

Here's an example:

You're welcome to read the
whole letter, but what is important is the highlighted lines; “Public
law 93-523, the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), was enacted in 1974
to ensure that the American public is provided with safe drinking
water. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to set
standards for the quality of drinking water and oversee all entities
that implement these standards.”

Mr. Heller wants us to
believe that everything is already taken care of. Well... in a way,
it is. The 2005 Energy Bill gave the fracking industry a free ride to
pollute
all they want – and Senator Heller knows this. Dick
Cheney's 2005 Energy bill (the Haliburton
Bill) exempted fracking fluids from the Safe Drinking Water
Act... That's right, the worst
polluters don't have to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The regulations are so lax that I wouldn't be surprised if we someday
find out that this is how some of these companies are getting rid of
their toxic waste. (Think about it; why do they need radioactive
materials in fracking fluid? They obviously don't.)

And the EPA sure looks
like it's been dragging its feet for years at crafting fracking standards. The EPA
is conducting a study to be published in 2014. And then there will be
a review. And then there will be other delays. Hey wait a minute;
shouldn't the EPA err on the safe side until the study comes out? Not
when there's big money involved.

We didn't vote for that.
We didn't write our “elected representatives” and ask for this.
Americans have died from this type of pollution. And many Americans
are sick. Exempting the dirtiest polluters from regulation is as far
from common sense as our “leaders” can get.

The 2005 Energy Bill also
exempted fracking fluids from the Clean Water Act and the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). And there is no way U.S. Senator
Dean Heller could not have known.He's just hoping we don't know.

In my “Go to Heller”
letter, Senator Heller stated; “I understand the importance of
federal policies that promote a clean and healthy environment.” And
in the next paragraph, he lies to us; claiming that federal policies
already exist that are adequate (with the exemptions he
didn't mention).

So, why would Senator
Heller lie to us like that? Could it be the over
$200,000 in “campaign contributions” he received from the oil
and gas industry. Apparently, the fix is in.

Of course, Senator Heller
isn't the only one. The Obama administration backed
off on a damning scientific report that showed that fracking
is poisoning groundwater. In case you hadn't noticed, this is
what is known as a “cover-up.” (In case you don't remember, it
was the cover-up of the Watergate break-in the led to President
Nixon's downfall. But don't expect that to happen here, since this
cover-up protects the oligarchy.)

This is what a failed
democracy looks like. Our “elected representatives” can't
make rational decisions. And things will just get worse until we
fix them. Don't expect the likes
of Dean Heller to do it for us. They're just making too much
money.

What makes this so mind
bendingly crazy is that we have the technology to do
better. Why on Earth would we want to poison our drinking water with
fracking fluids and methane so that we can pollute
our air and change our climate?

And the story just gets
more insane. Hundreds
of thousands of trees have died in America due to the drought
that no-one in the advertiser supported media will even mention
“climate change” about. We are on track for 69
feet of sea level rise. This is the third winter in a row that
the East has experienced a snowpocolypse.
There are more twisters, earlier. And of course, there were the more
energetic hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. Moreover, due to methane
leaks at the fracking sites, natural gas is no cleaner than coal. It
appears that they are all lying to us – apparently
because money in their hands now is more important than our health
and well being in the future.

Please sign
this petition to ask Governor Sandoval not to
approve fracking in Nevada. It won't be enough, since Governor
Sandoval is a Republican, but at least they'll know we care about
this.

About Me

I am Western Shoshone, native to Nevada. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering and ten years experience as a Systems Engineer. I am also the author of the book "lifehacking," available at amazon.com